St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-06-25
DINNER.
Mock Turtle Soup.
Fried Whitefish.
Fresh Beef's Tongue au gratin.
String Beans.
Corn Starch Custard.
Pineapple sliced with Wine.

Coffee.
Mock TURTLE SCUBA calfS head dressed
with the skin on four quarts of cold water
four tablespoonful of butter and twice as
much Drowned -four, half can of tomatoes
strained through sieve, juice of lemon
and one sliced lemon, teacupful of brown
sherry, pepper and salt to taste, table
spoonful Of allspice powdered, raw egg
Boil the head slowly for four hours and let
it get cold in the liquor. Take it out and
feshy parts of the cheek with the tongue
to be cut into dice, and divide the rest into
two parts when you have chopped it fine
Return one-half to the SKINNED liquor with
the bones and set it where it will heat slowly.
Make the other into forcemeat with the brain,
binding it with beaten egg and seasoning
we'll Roll into balls with Toured hands setin
quick oven to harden, and when firm coat
forms on the outside take them out and set
them away to cool. Rub the tomatoes through
a sieve. When the soup has cooked for one
hour strain out bones and meat put back
over the fire with the tomatoes, and while it
heats make 'roux' in a frying pan of the
butter and -four, stirring to smooth brown,
oil-like mixture, then thinning with few
spoonfuls from the soup kettle. Add the
SPICE pepper and SALT and stir all into the
soup. Cook few minutes at sharp boil
put in the meat dice and lemon. Ten min
utes later drop in the balls, after which the
soup should not boil. The wine goes in just
before the soup is poured into the tureen
The yolks of six hard boiled eggs are an i'm
provement. Much of the excellence of this
most popular soup depends on the seasoning
Ii this is judiciously done, obedience to the
directions given will result in success-and
delight. 1t is even better the second day
than the first.
FRIED WH1rEF1sH.-Clean without split,
ting, salt and pepper them, roll in cornmeal
or flour, and fry in cleared dripping or IN
sweet lard. Drain off the fat and serve on
hot dish.
STRING BEANs.-String them on both sides
with sharp knife, cut into inch lengths ana
cook tender in hot sailed water. The time
will depend on the age and size; drain Well
stir butter pepper and salt through them,
and dish.
POTATOES AU GENEvE.-Boil and mash
dozen potatoes, making them soft with milk
and butter, heap on pie plate in SMOOTH
mound, scoop out cupful from the centre
of the heap, leaving conical cavity, glaze
the inside of this and the outside OF the
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into a small cupful of melted butter four ia,
blespoonfuls of grated cheese, the whipped
yolks of two eggs, salt and pepper to taste.
Heat and stir and when thick and hot pour
into the crater of the mound, Silt hne
crumbs upon the sauce; set in the oven 70
brown slightly and send to table.
CORN STARCH quart OF mix
four eggs, three tablespoonful of corn starch;
five tablespoonful of sugar, teaspoonfiulI 10, OF
butter, little salt and nutmeg scald the
milk, wet up the corn starch with cold mix,
salt it and stir into the boiling milk until II Is
thick and free from Jumps. Take it on, peat
in the butter and let it get almost cold before
whipping in the frothed eggs, the sugar ano
spice. Beat well and long, turn into but
tered pudding dish, and bake to yello'yT
brown; sift sugar over it when perfectly eold
and eat with cream or with branded
peaches.
PINEAPPLE SLICED, WITH W1NE.-Pare and
cut the fruit into dice, put layer in glass
of sherry: more fruit, more sugar and WINE
until the dish is full Strew sugar over tne
top heap on ice and eat within an hour stses
the dish is prepared, as the wine tousnen'
the fruit.